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The Inflection Point
As organizations grow the technology needs of an organization change – and sometimes change quickly and profoundly. Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management, People / Talent, Process
Tagged change, Leadership, Management, organization, workforce dynamics
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Soft Statements vs Hard Reality
If your company is like most, your mission statement and set of corporate approved values portray your company as being very compassionate. The picture painted is that people who work at your organization are more like family members than employees. The family will take care of itself and protect itself from all those not part of the family. While these words sound very “Mafia-esque” the messaging demonstrates that your organization is a great place to work. Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management, People / Talent
Tagged change, character, Management, values, workforce dynamics
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Demonstrable Leadership
Nuts and bolts time. As a leader how do your demonstrate your leadership? Are you doing anything to position yourself as something other than a leader?
There are probably hundreds of tasks and activities which you can do during any given day. The items with which you choose to interact with people, and how you choose to interact with people, will play a big part in your ability to lead them. Continue reading
Types of Meetings – It Depends on Your Perspective
The marketing guru Seth Godin describes three types of meetings which occur in business – Information, Discussion, and Permission meetings. I found this very interesting and somewhat of a parallel universe.
In the business world that I am familiar with, management of Information Technology, I am used to four primary types of meetings, and a different set than Seth describes. Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process, Technology
Tagged efficiency, meeting, productivity, protocol, workforce dynamics
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The Art of Building a Team
Over the course of the last twenty years I’ve been part of and put together dozens of teams. Over the last few years I’ve been putting together teams more often. I’ve found that it is important to recognize that teams evolve. They take on an identity. They have a culture. At the beginning of a project they are a collection of individuals, at the end of a project the team is far more than the sum of its people – in ways that are difficult to predict. At its essence, teams are organic entities which are grown as opposed to assembled or built. Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management, Process, Technology
Tagged goals, team, values, web2.0, workforce dynamics
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Do Values Scale?
Recently I had the opportunity to dine with Ken Majer who has been doing outstanding work in the area of values and their effect on companies. He makes a great case that the corporate values should be established before the vision, and mission of a company as misalignment of values will inadvertently cause the strategies to fail during execution.
From a company growth perspective, companies in start-up mode typically involve only a handful of people. It will also be likely that each of these people will hold in common a value set, and be passionate about these values. Everyone in these companies will typically wear many hats and quite often cover for each other. In a small company, if these people did not share the same values they likely could not coexist. Likewise, if they did not share a passion for what they were doing they would likely not be in a start-up. Continue reading
Posted in Management, People / Talent
Tagged collaboration, growth, life cycle, net generation, values, workforce dynamics
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